Thanks for all the responses everyone

Right then, I'm trying to use Grabit to access newsgroups but I've also tried using Outlook Express just in case it was a problem with the way i had set up Grabit. When I try to refresh the group list in Grabit I get the error "unable to connect to news.wanadoo.co.uk: 119" In Outlook I get the error "The TCP/IP connection was unexpectedly terminated by the server" when I clcik on the details button I get the following:

Configuration:
Account: news.wanadoo.co.uk
Server: news.wanadoo.co.uk
Protocol: NNTP
Port: 119

I've also tried using variations of the newsgroup name. I've tried news.wanadoo.com, news.wanadoo.co.uk, news.freeserve.co.uk and news.freeserve.com. Wanadoo bought out freeserve so I think that's why it still says it on some of their support pages. As far as I can tell, news.wanadoo.co.uk is the correct address. I've been able to ping it so it seems to exist.

Any other suggestions?